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The Vancouver Sun is publishing a series of articles called “20 Big Ideas” about the trends and phenomena that defined this decade.
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Part 2: Technologies are enticing, but it is harder and harder to wean ourselves away from them.

When I e-mailed Gloria Mark to ask if she would be available for an interview, I wasn’t expecting a quick response.

That’s because I knew that as a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress and other studies on multi-tasking, she set a schedule to avoid digital distractions by checking her e-mail only twice a day.

That makes her a bit of an anomaly in a relentlessly wired and wireless world, which is starting to weary some to the point that uni-tasking or mono-tasking could come as a welcome relief.

“I can only guess that multi-tasking has increased over the decade because we’ve got a lot more devices and applications available to us,” said Mark. “For example Twitter — it wasn’t around 10 years ago and now it is one of the top applications being used on the Web.

“We’ve got a lot more technologies available that people seem to enjoy, like Twitter, Facebook and social networking sites that didn’t exist 10 years ago. There is a lot more to offer people but at the same time, it is distracting.”

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The Vancouver Sun is publishing a series of articles called “20 Big Ideas” about the trends and phenomena that defined this decade.
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Part 1: Big ideas: Trending forward, but looking back

“The question is: Will we be able to move beyond this decade of anxiety?

The new millennium looked as if it was off to an edgy start in 2000 with mass paranoia about the Y2K bug infecting the world’s computers.

After that scare fizzled out, an actual disaster struck, driving panic into the hearts of many in the West: The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.

The collective mood of the first decade of this millennium has been, in some ways, coloured by the reactions to this unprecedented attack on U.S. terrain.

Fear has been the decade’s dominant emotion, leading leaders in many countries to use technology to expand their military might, their spy networks and their “security.”

With 2010 arriving next month, many are wondering whether the “war on terror” and all that’s gone with it has accomplished much.”

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“In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that’s my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year? In no particular order…”

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“It’s conventional wisdom that teenagers are early adopters of tech innovations, including Web-based social networks like Facebook and MySpace. But that apparently isn’t the case with micro-blogging site Twitter, which is largely shunned by the adolescent crowd.

According to a New York Times article, teens would much rather text than tweet. The piece quotes 18-year-old Kristen Nagy, a New Jersey teen who calls Twitter “weird,” and adds that she “doesn’t feel like everyone needs to know what I’m doing every second of my life.”

Just how uncool is Tweeting? According to ComScore, only 11 percent of Twitter users are aged 12 to 17, the Times reports.”

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This article is from The Province.

“Growing numbers of American seniors are going online, chipping away at the dominance of 18- to 44-year-olds who comprise half the Web population, according to a study released Wednesday. Since 2005, the population segment that has made the largest online gains in the United States is the 70- to 75-year-old age group, the Washington-based Pew Research Center said.” Read rest of article.